Article
Chemorepulsion of Host Immune Cells for Xenotransplantation
2023-04-10
Abstract excerpt
Recently, two pig-to-human kidney transplants and a pig-to-human heart transplant were completed. The kidney trials involved a patient who was deceased and a patient who was brain dead. They seemed to indicate that pig kidneys can be at least somewhat functional in humans. However, patients still have to be under severe immunosuppression - and the first patient to receive a porcine heart passed away after two mont...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 452be952-9955-5f58-b473-2b3248885050
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202304.0111.v2
